"Do I have life 'more abundant'?" That's a question millions of Christians have asked down through the ages. Dan Stone asked that question during a time of spiritual frustration in his own life and God answered by showing Dan he had been living only a part of the gospel message. Dan's search led him to discover the truth of "Christ in you" as "the rest of the gospel" that most Christians overlook.
Readers who are hungry for a deeper experience with God will resonate with Dan's discovery of "the rest of the gospel," which is indeed rest for everyone who is willing to finally let go and let God.
Dan Stone was a graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and served as a pastor for sixteen years and in administration at Georgetown College and Samford University. He traveled the U.S. sharing the message of "Christ in you" for more than twenty years. He authored the Union Life Ministries book The Mystery of the Gospel, as well as numerous articles and booklets. Dan finished his earthly course in 2005 and joined his Lord in heaven.
David Gregory is the author of several books including the New York Times bestseller Dinner with a Perfect Stranger and Christy Award finalist The Last Christian. David earned masters degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary and the University of North Texas. He now writes full time and lives in the Pacific Northwest.


Boarding the B.C. Ferry in Departure Bay that takes Bob and me to Horseshoe Bay on mainland Vancouver we begin the drive to Kimberley in the East Kootenays, an area over 27,000 sq. kilometers in south-east British Columbia stretching from Spilimacheen down to the Montana border and lies between Banff and the Kootenay lake; tucked between the Purcell, Monashee and Selkirks of the Columbia Mountain system and the Canadian Rockies.
From Horseshoe Bay we drove on the # 1 hwy to Hope then took the Coquihalla or the #5 as far as Kamloops, then back on the #1 that took us up into the high mountains and through the Glacier National Park to Golden where we spent a night, making it an eleven hour drive. (not including the two-hour ferry ride). From there it would only be a two and a half hour drive following hwy 95 directly south down to Kimberley.
I've tagged along with Bob because he is working again in the area our daughter and her partner live, so we can get in some visiting time, me more than he unfortunately as his hours are long without days off for the two weeks we're here. A visit made even more special because our daughter is in her second trimester with their first baby! They had also booked a week "pre-delivery" vacation to Mexico that coincided with our second week here so we'll happily look after the four-legged grand babies Dexter and Jackson, their two chihuahuas, for a week. When they return Bob will be finished his work and we'll have more relaxed time to spend a few extra days with them.
B.C. Ferry from Departure Bay Vancouver Island to Horseshoe Bay Vancouver.
Glacier National Park, east of Golden, B.C.
The Columbia Basin, Windermere area along hwy 95, heading South B.C.


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North Fort Myers kicks off field house fundraiser with message from Hall of Famer Deion Sanders
Bowen said the proceeds will be combined with money the program has saved over time and go toward the project he estimates will cost around $50,000.
North Fort Myers kicks off field house fundraiser with message from Hall of Famer Deion Sanders Bowen said the proceeds will be combined with money the program has saved over time and go toward the project he estimates will cost around $50,000. Check out this story on news-press.com: https://www.news-press.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2019/10/24/north-fort-myers-fundraising-ron-hoover-fieldhouse-renovations-deion-sanders-help/4084163002/
Adam Regan, Fort Myers News-Press Published 5:31 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2019 | Updated 5:59 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2019
When you walk into the Ron Hoover Fieldhouse at North Fort Myers the first thing you see is the wall of alumni, featuring everyone from Deion Sanders to Jevon Kearse to Noel Devine to Tommy Bohanon. Each of them dressed in the same locker room, received treatment in the same training room and stored their equipment in the same closet.
And that's the problem.
"We're trying to bring the field house into this century," North athletic director Joe Bowen said.
Photos: Rain — no problem for Deion Sanders' prime truth football game
"I love you," Deion Sanders tells his high school football coach Ron Hoover on Thursday before Sanders' PRIME TRUTH 7-on-7 football game at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. Hoover coached Sanders at North Fort Myers High School. The all-star game features players from Texas and Lee County. All admission proceeds will go toward fundraising and building the Fort Myers TRUTH youth academic and sports non-profit organization, which is geared toward pushing children ages 5-12 toward sports as a vehicle toward success in life. Kinfay Moroti/The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida
Deion Sanders, right, prays before his PRIME TRUTH 7-on-7 football game at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. The all-star game features players from Texas and Lee County. Kinfay Moroti/The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida
Deion Sanders, center, meets Fort Myers police Lt. Victor Medico on Thursday at Sanders' PRIME TRUTH 7-on-7 football game at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. The all-star game features players from Texas and Lee County. Kinfay Moroti/The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida
Deion Sanders leads his PRIME TRUTH 7-on-7 football game at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. The all-star game features players from Texas and Lee County. Kinfay Moroti,/The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida
Scenes from Deion Sanders' PRIME TRUTH 7-on-7 football game at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. The all-star game features players from Texas and Lee County. Kinfay Moroti/The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida
Shedeur Sanders, left, meets Ron Hoover on Thursday at Deion Sanders' PRIME TRUTH 7-on-7 football game at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. Hoover coached Shedeur's father Deion at North Fort Myers High School. The all-star game features players from Texas and Lee County. Kinfay Moroti/The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida
Deion Sanders leads his PRIME TRUTH 7-on-7 football game at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. The all-star game features players from Texas and Lee County. Kinfay Moroti/The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida
Deion Sanders leads his team off the field after his PRIME TRUTH 7-on-7 football game at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. The all-star game features players from Texas and Lee County. Kinfay Moroti/The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida
Deion Sanders acknowledges fans after leading his PRIME TRUTH 7-on-7 football game at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. The all-star game features players from Texas and Lee County. Kinfay Moroti, The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida
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The Red Knights began a fundraising campaign to renovate the 40-year old field house named after Hoover, the legendary North football coach, and enlisted the help of the program's most famous alum to spread the word.
"We've got some kids who are going to college, we've got some kids who are getting an education, we've got kids learning how to be young men as well as young women," Sanders, the Pro Football Hall of Famer and two-time Super Bowl champion, said in a video posted on Twitter decked out in a North hat and letterman jacket. "We need your help. We need your help immensely."
Please help me help my old Highschool @NorthFtMyersHShttps://t.co/l9fZQwnZMDpic.twitter.com/m1BB5ck2PU
— Deion Sanders (@DeionSanders) October 23, 2019
"If it wasn't for Ron Hoover and the rest of everybody who contributed at North Fort Myers High School, I wouldn't be where I am today," Sanders added.
The program was given the green light to raise $20,000 on wefund4u.com. Bowen said the proceeds will be combined with money the program has saved to go toward the project he estimates will cost around $50,000. He hopes to break ground in December.
On the crowdfunding site, current coach Dwayne Mack hosts an MTV Cribs-style walkthrough of the field house explaining the program's vision for the renovations.
More: Click here to support the North Fort Myers field house fundraiser
"It's dealing with kids and kids are our future," Mack said. "If you don't invest in our kids you're not investing in our future. This game is developing young men. Your investing in the game that develops young men."
Mack's first stops were cramped training and equipment rooms that will be expanded. The plan is to move the coaches' room to the other side of the building and upgrade the locker room.
In addition, the team currently uses a residential washer and dryer for its laundry and hopes to upgrade to a commercial washer and dryer. Outside the locker room, the Red Knights will look to add bathrooms that can be used by football players as well as those attending games on the nearby baseball field.
North Fort Myers High School's head football coach Dwayne Mack leads the Red Knights against Port Charlotte on Friday in Port Charlotte. Port Charlotte beat North 22-9. (Photo: Kinfay Moroti/The News-Press USA Today Network-Florida)
"We're the best team in Southwest Florida and we'll have the best facilities in Southwest Florida," Mack said. "We can't do it without your help."
Follow News-Press sports writer Adam Regan on Twitter: @NP_AdamRegan
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Verot's Matt Herting's basketball coaching tree continues to grow
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly wrote The 2018 Kelly Report on the New America Dream. The report details how strategic investments in young people, mature workers, education, manufacturing and the digital sector will create jobs, foster opportunities and empower all families to live their American Dream.
The Kelly Report brings together Members of Congress, business leaders and policy experts. The contributors to the report include Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Cedric Richmond, Congressman Eric Swalwell, Congressman Matt Cartwright and others.
Congresswoman Robin Kelly wrote The 2015 Kelly Report on Health Disparities in America, the first-ever Congressional analysis of the nation's health inequality that offers a blueprint for ending the crisis.
The contributors to the report include Congressional Black Caucus Chair G.K. Butterfield, National Urban League President & CEO Marc H. Morial, former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, and HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health Dr. J. Nadine Gracia.
Congresswoman Robin Kelly wrote The 2014 Kelly Report on Gun Violence in America, the first-ever Congressional analysis of the nation's gun violence epidemic that offers a blueprint for ending the crisis.
The Kelly Report brings together members of Congress, academics and gun reform advocates to examine the root causes and impact of gun violence in America and provide a comprehensive set of legislative and policy recommendations to stop it. The contributors to the report include Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
Other contributors include: The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Newtown Action Alliance, NAACP, National Urban League, Americans for Responsible Solutions, Center for American Progress, Duke University, University of Chicago Crime Lab, Harvard University School of Public Health and John Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health.


The show was bigger than ever this year, with an approximate 50% increase in attendance over the previous year, and the tournaments reflected this increase with around 80 people participating in EACH of CAX's 3 Tournament Divisions: Modern, Solid state, and EM.
Neil Inn was the winner of the EM division while Keith Elwin, just like last year, won BOTH the Solid State AND Modern divisions. Neil Shatz pulled a '2nd place sweep' of all divisions, while other winners included Trent Augenstein and Tom Neighbors (3rd and 4th in Solid State), Jim Belsito (3rd in EM) and Johnny Modica (3rd in Modern), and Andre Massenkoff (4th place in Modern and EM). Also, Robert Gagno was this year's winner of the Casual Division Tournament.
Congradulations Keith on winnning the Battle along with Neil Shatz for second. It is so much FUN watching tournaments go to three games in an all out head to head competition of the worlds top pinball players. The junior pinball championship went to three games as well and was won by Joshua Henderson. Hats off to all players.


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New business success for Ogilvy, SPRG, Pulse and Ruder Integrated Marketing; new people at APCO, Fleishman, LinkedIn.
HONG KONG—Ogilvy Public Relations has been appointed by Special Olympics as the public relations supporter for the imminent 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games to take place in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea from January 29 to February 5. According to Peter Wheeler, chief of strategic properties for Special Olympics, "Ogilvy PR's commitment to help us spread our message of respect and inclusion with global media is a tremendous resource to not only our communications team, but to all of our athletes, coaches and supporters worldwide."
SINGAPORE—Ashley Knapp, a specialist in corporate and consumer PR, is joining APCO Worldwide as a director for its Southeast Asia business, based in Singapore. Knapp joins APCO from Grayling, where she led their corporate and consumer client portfolio in Asia Pacific. She has more than eight years of experience in pan-regional work, supporting companies such as Diageo, British Airways, Qantas, Embraer and Unilever.
NEW DELHI—Fleishman-Hillard International Communications has appointed Rahul Mehta as senior vice president and general manager in New Delhi. Mehta brings more than 14 years of agency and corporate experience to the position. Before joining Fleishman-Hillard, he was branch head of Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick in New Delhi, and previously worked at agencies such as Genesis Burson-Marsteller and Good Relations.
SINGAPORE—Strategic Public Relations Group Singapore has retained its appointment as the public relations agency of record for Hasbro Singapore following its completion of several campaigns over the past year. SPRG will provide strategic communications counsel, media relations and oversee publicity initiatives for Hasbro within the Republic for 2013. In 2012, SPRG handled publicity for the Resorts World Sentosa Singapore Transformers Cybertron Convention 2012 and the launch of the world's first two-sided Monopoly board game, developed by Hasbro Singapore.
SINGAPORE—Professional social networking site LinkedIn has appointed Roger Pua as director of corporate communications, Asia-Pacific and Japan, reporting to vice president of corporate communications Shannon Stubo in its global headquarters in California. Pua was most recently vice president of global communications and marketing, APMEA for Nielsen and earlier worked at GE Capital and Citi Investment Research.
SYDNEY—Pulse Communications has been appointed as UBank's PR agency following a competitive three way pitch. UBank is a division of National Australia Bank, based online. Pulse Communications will play a role in supporting UBank's social and traditional media programs by developing creative campaigns that will raise awareness of UBank in the competitive home loans market.
HONG KONG—Strategic Public Relations Group has been appointed as the official PR consultant of Financial Talk Show 2013 by Alex Wong. SPRG will manage media and public relations activities surrounding Talk Show 2013, with the primary objective of boosting the program's popularity across Hong Kong, particularly among the retail investment community.
GUAM—United Airlines has named Ruder Integrated Marketing Strategies as its regional public relations agency of record for Guam and Micronesia following an extensive agency search. RiMS will address local and regional civic and community PR programs and issues. The account will be run out of the RiMS office on Guam and will be managed by Sally Malay, manager of account services, PR and events. Steve Ruder, president of RiMS, will provide strategic oversight.


Canon Pixma MG6470 Colour Wifi Multifunction MultiFuntion InkJet Printer? This high performance Image All-In-One has Cloud Printing Solutions. Easy to install and also made use of. Now also come in black and white. The Canon PIXMA Printing Solutions App available on both iOS and also Android systems, provides users a whole lot a lot more performance with their printers. Using a mobile phone or tablet tool, customers can publish records and images saved on their gadgets, or check a document directly right into their devices.
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Elitehost Review 2019: Is Elitehost a Good Hosting?
Elitehost has been providing website hosting since 2005 with SSD storage. The plans are well-priced and have a good uptime guarantee, the only downside is the lack of support for advanced programming languages in the shared hosting plans (you need to upgrade to VPS for that).
Elitehost, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, has been providing website hosting since 2005. With servers co-located in multiple data centers around the world, its website is available in English.
Elitehost co-locates its servers in data centers around the world; there are two centers in South Africa, one in the U.K., one in Germany, and one in the U.S. It's also excellent to see a 99.9% uptime guarantee, which is backed by compensation (unlike many other companies).
As well as SSD storage for faster disk read/write speeds, the servers run on CloudLinux, which means your data is isolated from your neighbors, and LiteSpeed Web Server for fast performance. It's clear that Elitehost is offering premium hosting services.
There are two tiers of plans – business and personal – which both include comprehensive resource allocations coupled with a premium one-click installer for more than 250 programs and a website building tool for beginners.
For experts, there are all the usual features you'd hope for such as phpMyAdmin, MySQL, and support for all versions of PHP. However, if you'd like support for other advanced languages and Cron jobs, you will need to upgrade to the VPS plans.
The plans are pretty well priced, especially given the level of features and resources included. You also get a free Let's Encrypt certificate and domain name (in annual plans only), so overall, it's generous pricing.
You can purchase the plans in one, three, six, and twelve-month terms, with a small discount and a free domain if you buy one-year upfront. There's a 30-day money-back guarantee on all plans except VPS, which comes with a 15-day guarantee.
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Qantas has unveiled a new advertising campaign that taps into Australians' love of travel and highlights the airline's extensive international and domestic network.
The work of Clemenger BBDO Sydney the spot will run across broadcast, digital, outdoor and social media from the 29 April 2018, the series shows Australian travellers enjoying the experiences on offer in countries that Qantas operates to, including surfing in Waikiki, hiking in Yosemite, strolling through the historic streets of Kyoto and going on safari in South Africa. Experiences in Australia are also featured such as watching the sunset at Uluru.
Twelve destinations are included in the campaign, inspiring Australian travellers to explore the world in different ways.
The tagline, 'no one travels like Australians – and no one takes us to the world like Qantas,' accompanies the campaign, with a reinvented version of Geoff Mack's 1959 'I've Been Everywhere,' recorded by Australian musician Lisa Mitchell underscoring the broadcast films.


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Kemp order stops local governments from imposing COVID rules
Governor says action will protect businesses.
by Dave Williams/Capitol Beat August 19th, 2021 Updated August 21st, 2021
ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp issued an executive order Thursday prohibiting local governments in Georgia from imposing mask, vaccine or building-capacity mandates aimed at discouraging the spread of COVID-19.
This story also appeared in Capitol Beat News Service
The cities of Atlanta and Savannah reinstated mask mandates late last month for public indoor spaces, citing a rise in cases of the virus driven by the highly contagious delta variant.
Some school districts in Georgia also are requiring students and teachers to wear masks inside school buildings.
While Kemp has supported letting individual school systems make those decisions, he said his executive order is aimed at businesses.
"Small businesses across our state should not be punished by local governments," he said. "Just as our economy is starting to return to normal, small businesses cannot survive another shutdown."
Kemp said Thursday's order is in keeping with his commitment throughout the course of the pandemic to protect "both lives and livelihoods."
Thanks to that stand, Georgia has been able to reduce unemployment and experience record job growth while still prioritizing seniors vulnerable to coronavirus and seeing to the needs of hospitals and schools, he said.
"I trust hardworking Georgians to know what's best for themselves, their families and their employees," he said.
With cases of COVID-19 rising in Georgia to the point of straining hospital emergency rooms and ICUs, Kemp has taken heat in recent weeks from critics calling on the governor to take a more forceful stand against the virus.
"It's bad enough that Brian Kemp has refused to implement any statewide measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in Georgia – now, he is forbidding local governments from protecting their own communities," said Rebecca Galanti, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Party of Georgia.
"As public health officials, parents, and Georgians at large beg Kemp to take action to combat the current COVID-19 surge in our state, the only action he is apparently willing to take is one that will help COVID-19 spread in Georgia and undermine local efforts to control the virus."
Georgia passed the 1 million mark in confirmed cases of the virus this week. As of Thursday afternoon, 69,797 Georgians had been hospitalized with COVID-19 and the virus was responsible for 22,151 confirmed or probable deaths, the state Department of Public Health reported.
Georgia and other Southern states also continued to lag behind the nation in COVID-19 vaccination rates.
This story available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.
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Kemp order stops local governments from imposing COVID rules

by The Current, The Current
August 19, 2021

ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp issued an executive order Thursday prohibiting local governments in Georgia from imposing mask, vaccine or building-capacity mandates aimed at discouraging the spread of COVID-19.

The cities of Atlanta and Savannah reinstated mask mandates late last month for public indoor spaces, citing a rise in cases of the virus driven by the highly contagious delta variant.

Some school districts in Georgia also are requiring students and teachers to wear masks inside school buildings.

While Kemp has supported letting individual school systems make those decisions, he said his executive order is aimed at businesses.

"Small businesses across our state should not be punished by local governments," he said. "Just as our economy is starting to return to normal, small businesses cannot survive another shutdown."

Kemp said Thursday's order is in keeping with his commitment throughout the course of the pandemic to protect "both lives and livelihoods."

Thanks to that stand, Georgia has been able to reduce unemployment and experience record job growth while still prioritizing seniors vulnerable to coronavirus and seeing to the needs of hospitals and schools, he said.

"I trust hardworking Georgians to know what's best for themselves, their families and their employees," he said.

With cases of COVID-19 rising in Georgia to the point of straining hospital emergency rooms and ICUs, Kemp has taken heat in recent weeks from critics calling on the governor to take a more forceful stand against the virus.

"It's bad enough that Brian Kemp has refused to implement any statewide measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in Georgia – now, he is forbidding local governments from protecting their own communities," said Rebecca Galanti, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Party of Georgia.

"As public health officials, parents, and Georgians at large beg Kemp to take action to combat the current COVID-19 surge in our state, the only action he is apparently willing to take is one that will help COVID-19 spread in Georgia and undermine local efforts to control the virus."

Georgia passed the 1 million mark in confirmed cases of the virus this week. As of Thursday afternoon, 69,797 Georgians had been hospitalized with COVID-19 and the virus was responsible for 22,151 confirmed or probable deaths, the state Department of Public Health reported.

Georgia and other Southern states also continued to lag behind the nation in COVID-19 vaccination rates.

This story available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.

This article first appeared on The Current and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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HomeMarketingThe Saudi Arabia Sukuk: Bond Market
The Saudi Arabia Sukuk: Bond Market
Sukuk is ordinarily taken to mean a "shariah compliant bond". It is symbolic of a claim to the ownership of an asset. The fact that the claim to a sukuk is more of ownership that to cash flow helps to draw a line between on the one hand, conventional bonds and on the other hand, a sukuk. In the case of conventional bonds, these entail interest tied to securities, while sukuks are symbolic of certificates of investment made up of a claim to ownership to assets that have been pooled together (Association of Islamic Banking Institutions Malaysia 4). During the Middle Ages, Muslims extensively used Sukuk to symbolize financial commitments having rots in trade, along with additional commercial activities. Nonetheless, sukuk, as we know them today, vary from the original ones. The sukuk of today resembles the conventional securitization concept. This is a process that is characterized by transfer of ownership to underlying assets to numerous investors via the issuance of certificates that symbolize a balanced value of the assets in question.
Recent trends in Sukuk and bond issuance
In recent years, the Islamic finance sector has been experiencing significant innovations in the form of securities and bonds. Accordingly, Islamic securities, also known as Sukuk, have gained immense popularity. Government have found in Sukuks a means to raise the much-needed finance via sovereign issues. In addition, companies are now relying on corporate Sukuks as a means of funding. The issuing of Sukuk started in 2000, when three Sukuks were issued, all valued at $336 million (Karam par. 3). By 2006, the number of Sukuks issued had increased 77, and their combined valued was at the time estimated to have been over US$ 27 billion. At the international level, the capital markets have also embraced Sukuks to assist them raise the necessary finances for their expansion. By adopting islamically acceptable structures, the capital markets have realized that Sukuks are in fact a vital mechanism for raising finances. Moreover, sovereign bodies, multinational corporations, financial institutions and state corporations are now increasingly issuing international sukuk to substitute syndicated financing.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia introduced sukuks for the first time in 2006, but their real impact was fully felt in 2008. Since then, the sukuks have greatly boosted the Islamic capital market in Saudi Arabia, in addition to enhancing economic and industrial development. Up to this point, commodity and consumer finance have been the main concern of Saudi Arabia's Islamic finance industry. Other projects that have also characterized Islamic fiancé in the kingdom include the power project in Shuaba East. However, the petrochemicals, gas, oil, real estate and manufacturing sectors are now the beneficiaries of Islamic fiancé in Saudi Arabia. Various forms of finances are used to provide fiancés to these sectors, and they include sukuk, equity financing and trade finance, amongst others. The emergence of sukuk has resulted in a massive growth of the bond market in Saudi Arabia. Estimates are that sukuks now comprise 81 percent of entire bonds that Saudi Arabia issues.
Differences between Sukuk and bond
The market for Bonds and Sukuk in Saudi Arabia enables issuers and investors alike to trade in these investment securities that are characterized by reduced risk and periodic returns, in comparison with equity investment. Governments, institutions and companies all consider Bonds and Sukuk valuable channels to acquire the required liquidity to help them finance their existing projects. Moreover, it is anticipated that the Bonds and Sukuk market shall allows investments diversification, as well as affording investors protection over portfolios. There are several similar features between Bond and Sukuk (Saudi Stock Exchange par. 3). In terms of the issuer, this could be an organization affiliated to the government. Alternatively, it could also be a private entity. In terms of the type of bond, the prospectus normally issued by the issuer clearly provides their specifications. It is important to note that various bonds may be customized in a bid t suit the issuer's specific needs; for instance, Sukuk, Murabaha, amortizing bond, straight bond, and convertible bond, amongst others. Both Sukuk and Bond are characterized by low risk. In addition, they get the first priority when it comes to paying principle. Their maturity date is also specified. Although thre re several types of Sukuk on offer at the Saudi Stock market, nonetheless, the most popular is the Sabic Sukuk. The table below depicts the Bond and Sukuk that are tradable at the Saudi Stock Exchange.
Table 1: Tradable Sukuk and Bond in Tadawul (Source: Saudi Stock
Sakk/Bond Issue Size (m) Par value (SR) Maturity Date Coupon (Annual return)
SABIC Sukuk I 3,000 50,000 26-7-2026 The basic rate of commission (SIBOR) in addition to 0.40%
SCECO Sukuk 5,000 500,000 15-7-2027 The basic rate of commission (SIBOR) in addition to 0.45%
SABIC Sukuk II 8,000 10,000 15-7-2027 The basic rate of commission (SIBOR) in addition to 0.38%
SABIC Sukuk III 5,000 10,000 15-5-2028 The basic rate of commission (SIBOR) in addition to 0.48%
SCECO Sukuk II 7,000 100,000 06-7-2029 The basic rate of commission (SIBOR) in addition to 1.60%
Sukuk vs. Eurobonds
Sukuk bear a lot of resemblance to conventional Eurobonds. Fro example, like Eurobonds, sukuk either assume the form of a security tool capable of giving the holder a level of return that is predictable, in this case, floating or fixed (Cakir and Raei 3). However, one distinguishing feature between sukuk and Eurobonds is that the levels of trading of the former (sukuk) are less, in comparison with those of the latter (Eurobonds). On the other hand, both Eurobonds and sukuk are rated and assessed by rating agencies that are recognized globally.
The role of Sukuk and bond market in Saudi Arabia economy
Many industry players in the economy of Saudi Arabia have by now recognized the potential and significance of Islamic financing, specifically the issuing of sukuk. In light of this, it has been projected that in a few years time, an increasingly number of organizations in the kingdom shall have embraced sukuk as a solution to their working capital, expansion plans, and refinancing pf existing debts. Saudi Arabia has so far witnesses a few landmark and major deals, thanks to Islamic financing. A notable financing transaction is the one that was issued in July 2009 by SABIC, at a market value of SR 3 billion. This particular sukuk issue was special in that it was the very first sukuk to have ever been issued publicly, in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, it was the first one under the newly established Capital Markets Law (Mushtak par. 6). In 2009, SABIC, an organization involved in Islamic financing, managed to access Islamic fiancé valued at SR 7.5 billion by way of issuing such sukuk facilities as murabaha and istisna. It is a pointer to the potential that the market for Islamic finance holds not just in Saudi Arabia, but also globally. In 2006, the Kingdom Installation Company, in conjunction with the Bahrain-based Unicorn Investment Bank, helped issue a sukuk that was valued at $ 23 million. By today's standard, this might look like a sukuk of modest value, but nonetheless, it help in setting a fertile ground for the issuance of sukuk of significant value, in later years. In addition, the sukuk also helped attract foreign investors, who are now able to directly access assets in the real estate market, in Saudi Arabia. Although the prospects for Saudi's industrialization are glowing, moving on to the future, nevertheless, there is a need for Islamic banks in the kingdom to looks become increasingly practical while educating and marketing their and products to organizations regarding their viability, efficacy, structures, and profitability.
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Pricing and valuation of Sukuk and bond
The global economic crisis has also affected the sukuk issuing in Saudi Arabia. Just like in other countries, there ahs been a marked diminishing of investors' appetite, in as far as financial assets and risk are concerned. On the other hand, the fact that initial public offerings (IPOs) are now less attractive, in addition to banks having to tighten their policies on lending, means that companies have no choice but to seek out for other funding options. This is how sukuk comes in. consequently, a number of companies have thus far realized funds by issuing sukuk since September 2008, when the global financial crisis intensified (Nisar 2). The new sukuk is characterized by a pricing strategy that signifies the prevailing high rate of aversion to risk within the bond market. In June 2009, the SEC (Saudi Electricity Company) issued sukuk and the expectation was that it would realize 160 basis points above the existing inter-bank rates in Saudi Arabia. This is in comparison with a mere 45 basis points realized by the sukuk that was issued at a similar period in July 2007. The premiums for sukuk were quite high from late 2008 to earlier this year (2009). As a result, such corporate as Saudi's Holland Bank were the beneficiaries of these high premiums. Even then, the observable trend amongst sukuk buyers is an inclination towards corporations that enjoys large government ownership, due to the ensuing reassuring of the investors about their investment.
Challenges and hurdles for launching Sukuk and bond in Saudi Arabia Market
Various hurdles and challenges characterize the launching of sukuk and bond in Saudi Arabia. To start with, there is the issue of a lack of breadth. At the moment, only SEC and Sabic are sukuk listed. The two issuers are characterized by massive state ownership. The assumption therefore is that the support from the government could translate into trading at low spreads. The Saudi sukuk market also lacks liquidity. As a result, market participants cannot transact with ease and efficiency. A majority of the investors needs a premium at time when they decide to invest in instruments regarded as illiquid (Association of Islamic Banking Institutions Malaysia 5). Sadly, the returns that the two listed sukuk provide are not able to reimburse this form of illiquidity. The human resource in the sukuk market also lacks in experience. Sukuk issuing calls for financial, legal as well as religious knowledge. At the moment, individuals with such a combination of knowledge are very few in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, not many would-be investors are familiar with the sukuk product. This is because the sukuk market in Saudi Arabia is quite new and underdeveloped. Therefore, for the average investor in Saudi Arabia, understanding of the instruments of fixed income and sukuk are alien subjects. For this reason many Saudi have opted to invest in sukuk with a lot of caution. Furthermore, the minimum order size that an investor can trade in is worth SR 10,000, and this too has played a role in discouraging the small investors that are willing but lacks in finances.
The sukuk market in Saudi Arabia is approaching its maturity stage, thanks to the interest shown by both investors and issuers. This is a confirmation that sukuk are viable choice for companies to mobilize long to medium-term investments and savings. Nonetheless, there are various challenges that face the sukuk and bond market in Saudi Arabia. Seeing that only two companies are sukuk listed in Saudi Arabia, this has resulted in a lack of breath in the Sukuk market. Accordingly, it is important to seek for diversification in the form of various sukuk regarding sector representation and risk profile. In addition, the nature of the sukuk market demands for individuals who have a wide knowledge in law and finances, amongst other fields. As a result, it is important to offer adequate training to such individuals to increase their capability to handle the issuance of sukuk market.
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This recipe is from Smitten Kitchen. I loved it because I love burrata, lentils and zucchini…never would have thought to put them together as she did. The burrata melted beautifully over the cooked vegetables and blended perfectly with the mustardy basil vinaigrette.
This recipe can easily be transformed … instead of lentils substitute for quinoa. Change out the Burrata for Feta.
Cook lentils: Pick over and rinse lentils. Place them in a medium saucepan and cover with 3 inches of cold water, seasoned well with salt. Simmer the lentils over medium heat for 25 to 30 minutes, until firm-tender. Drain and set aside.Meanwhile, make vinaigrette: Blend basil, mustard and vinegar together in a food processor. With machine running, drizzle in olive oil in a thin stream. Season well with salt and black pepper. You'll need to scrape the machine down a few times to get all of the leaves minced. No food processor? Very finely mince leaves on a cutting board with a sharp knife. Place in medium bowl and whisk with mustard and vinegar. Drizzle in olive oil in a thin stream, whisking the whole time. Season well with salt and pepper.
In a large frying pan, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium heat. Add zucchini, onion, thyme, salt and pepper and cooking, stirring frequently, until softened and just barely picking up color, about 9 minutes. Add garlic and cook 1 minute more. Add cooked lentils back to pan and stir to mix and re-warm; you can add a splash of water if they're sticking. Adjust seasonings to taste.
Assemble: Transfer lentil-vegetable mixture to a large, wide serving bowl and stir in 2/3 of vinaigrette. Place intact* burratas on top and then cut into quarters with a sharp knife so you don't miss any of the wonderful stuff that spills out. The warmth of the lentils will melt it further. Drizzle with a little extra vinaigrette, a few pinches of sea salt and a couple extra grinds of black pepper. Scatter basil leaves over and dig in.


removed prior to profiling and arc spraying (e.g., 4 mm grinding).
surveys related to cathodic protection and thermal sprayed zinc technologies.
of the Oregon Department of Transportation or the United States Department of Transportation.
considered essential to the object of this document.
This report does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation.
to the left of the red line.
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Table 4.2: A Uniform Design table for sandblasting the PCC and mortar samples: U24(33).
cement paste (Covino et al. 2002).
electrochemically aged to simulate 13.2 years of ODOT ICCP operations (Holcomb et al. 1996).
electrochemical reactions in 27 years of ODOT ICCP operations (Holcomb et al. 1996).
can be used to effectively monitor the TS-anode condition as it ages (Covino et al. 2002).
increase the service life by up to three years (Holcomb et al. 2002).
accelerated ICCP tests (Cramer et al. 2002).
spraying. Additional passes are needed for rough and irregular concrete surfaces.
evaluations detailed in Chapter 4.
Figure 1.3: Yaquina Bay Bridge: geographic location (left); main span and base views (right).
mass and electricity, can predict CP performance under various external conditions.
Reinforced concrete structures play a vital role in the infrastructure systems around the world.
interactions with chloride and oxygen.
is achieved with an anode to supply a higher counter current to the original corrosion circuit.
operations of ICCP and SACP have been recently reviewed by Szabó and Bakos (2006a; 2006b).
showed 283 cathodic protection systems were installed on 200 bridges, as shown in Figure 2.1.
conducted for North America, the results of which reveal that 573 bridges possess CP systems.
term protection of chloride-contaminated infrastructures.
Figure 2.1 Cathodic protection systems installed per year in North America (Sohanghpurwala 2009).
applied (Isecke and Mietz 1993).
migrate towards externally positioned electrodes, where they are collected and carried away.
with its own criteria, anode types, and power supplies.
can maintain an effective protection even when surface applied anodes have mechanical damage.
and a SHRP manual of practice for ICCP (Bennett et al. 1993).
the United States (Broomfield et al. 1990).
anodes for the lower tidal zone and fully submerged piling (Tinnea et al. 2004).
test method for organic coating anodes on a concrete slab (2005).
produced an overlay with higher stability in terms of traffic loading (Mailvaganam 1991).
anodes as ribbon in slots or as mesh under an overlay.
on conductive coatings made of pigmentary graphite and polymer matrix.
fell in the range of 40% to 45%.
platinum and palladium-platinum alloys are most frequently utilized as anode materials.
land groundbeds for buried substructures.
Caltrans researchers as secondary anodes (Carello et al. 1989; Apostolos et al.1987).
15%Al and mortar-enhanced zinc sheets performed poorly. Later, Brousseau et al.
coatings did not result in expected behaviors.
found, which is attributed to the electrical field generated by the sacrificial anodes.
pressure, and fast gun speed.
can be a serious issue (Rothman et al. 2004; Bullard et al. 1999).
zinc/hydrogel anode to a bridge pier in Florida (right) (Daily 1999).
resistance of the auxiliary electrode (Hassanein et al. 2002; Harriott et al. 1993).
(Jones 1987). The anodes are thus not able to discharge current and corrosion can cease.
cathodic current is applied to reduce the potential to -600 mV CSE (Montemor et al.
be absent, with the local potential determined by oxygen level.
areas of uniform corrosion and localized attack, respectively.
quantitative kinetic indication of corrosion attack in reinforced concrete (Pedeferri 1996).
measurements can be used to assess the performance of CP systems.
corrosion current density (Andrade 1986; Andrade et al. 2001; Rodriguez et al. 1994).
appropriate to avoid mathematically infinite solutions for Tafel slopes.
the Tafel slopes, and the corrosion current density to be simultaneously determined.
resistance (Ahmad and Bhattacharjee 1995).
thereby resulting in biased corrosion rate.
analyzed, with the former correlated with charge transfer and the later with surface film.
rebar in concrete depends on the utilized frequency.
potential is prone to environmental variations which can modify the cathode polarization.
validity of such sensors for real-time monitoring of localized rebar corrosion.
measuring the potential of the anode rather than the cathode that is normally investigated.
prone to environmental attack, which necessitates special care for their protection.


Exelon Generation's R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant awarded a $3,160 grant to the Town of Ontario Historical and Landmark Preservation Society to replace the roof on the Baptist Meeting House at Heritage Square Museum, which is located about a mile from the plant, in Ontario, N.Y. Each year, more than a thousand students tour the facility, which includes a 1874 train station, Civil War era log cabin and 150-year-old school house.
"We are fortunate to have the Heritage Square Museum in Ontario," said Ginna Nuclear Power Plant Site Vice President, Bill Carsky. "Exelon Generation is glad to help preserve this historical building for generations of visitors."
The Baptist Meeting House was built in 1834. It was donated and moved to the Heritage Square Museum in 1974 and is part of the 13-acre museum, which is open to the public on weekends from June 1 to October 7 from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.
Pictured is Maria Hudson from Exelon Generation presenting the check to Vera Graves, President. Looking on are Ann Welker, George Mandery and Billie Lochner of the Town of Ontario Historical and Landmark Preservation Society Board of Directors.


Wine competitions - their advantages and disadvantages, and even the relevance of entering, will usually ignite a good discussion amongst wine folk.
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The holiday season is my favorite time of year. I love brisk days that hint at snow, festive lights, the excitement in the air, and Christmas trees. My family laughs at me because I put them up in almost every room in the house. There's even a four foot pink feather tree that gets set up in my cubical at work which sort of looks like Barbie exploded on my desk, but I love it.
I cling to Christmas. I crave it like a drowning person craves air. Because Christmas spells hope, and this is the season when I need it the most. It seems as if we always lose people this time of year. A few days before this Thanksgiving, we lost my mom in a tragic car accident. In another few days, we recognize the 29th anniversary of losing dad. In the intervening years we have lost so many other family members, usually during the holidays. In fact, when my siblings and I were at the funeral home making mom's arrangements, the director wondered how we could be so calm and agreeable. It's easy, we said. Nearly everyone else in our family has died. We're experts at this.
As sad as we all are, we can't forget to celebrate. If nothing else, our children need the normalcy. We can't sit around in our house staring at the funeral flowers every night, after all. So last night I took my boys to the University of Richmond symphony orchestra concert to see my violin instructor play. While it wasn't holiday music, it was still an excuse to dress up and do something special. It was my children's first time experiencing an orchestra, and they enjoyed it. Not enough to want to take part, they said. They still think being in a rock band would be more cool, but they enjoyed the music despite the fact that there was no lead guitar. At least the opera singer was pretty, they pointed out.
Following the program, we spoke with my instructor. I haven't been to a lesson in two weeks and we were trying to schedule something on the fly. He has so many obligations this time of year, so many demands for his skill that it's difficult to find a mutually good time. He suggested we might meet at a church near me this week, and I could play carols in the church program that evening after the lesson. Perfect. I need that. Playing carols at Christmas makes it feel like my world is turning right side up again.
We might have funeral flowers instead of trees, and cardboard boxes of mom's things instead of colorfully wrapped presents, but we have each other. And we have Christmas carols, and festive lights to see, and maybe (just maybe) a hint of snow in the air.
Dear Krista, I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my mom when I was 28, suddenly and with no warning. She died on a holiday, too. Mother's day, to be exact. I so admire how you are dealing with your grief.
Anyway, for what it's worth, when you mentioned your pink tree I cracked a smile. This year, at my company's Christmas party, I am doing a special table. Last year, it was the "Diva" table, and all the women wore tiaras and sparkly diva outfits. This year, it will be a "Princess Christmas Barbie" table. Everything will be in gold and the most garish pink I could find. It will be fabulous. I will lift a toast to your mom.
Jeff, your office Christmas tradition sounds like a ton of fun. It makes me wish we worked together.
Krista, I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing this blog. I hope you and your boys continue to find wonder and beauty in the season and that it helps you during a difficult time.


UChain is basically a platform that facilitates the development of dApps that utilize a sharing based economy and considered as the first public infrastructure blockchain. UChain aims to build its underlying blockchain network to solve the current problems of trust and data abuse.
UChain attempts to finalise a solution for the problems of Peer-to-Peer network, Distributed Data Storage, User Credit Passport, and Token Incentive.
Through the execution of API's and SDK's, all sharing economy enterprises are able to issue their own token, building upon their application on top of the UChain network, making UChain a global autonomous sharing ecosystem.
UChain will join the ranks under the umbrella of U-Bicycle, the world's leading Internet company specialising in shared travel. Parent company to many leading eastern brands such as U-Car, U-Park, Grab-cycle, X-Bike, etc. and the tech will be implemented into existing U-Bicycle entities immediately.
Transaction value: UCN is circulated in all DApps built on top of UChain as payment for all kinds of transactions.
Supply chain vouchers: UCN can be used as vouchers for the purchase of assets from suppliers.
Data contribution rewards: Users will be rewarded with UCN if they decide to contribute their data to the development of the ecosystem.
Value-added services: UCN can be used for payment of API services provided by UChain.
Community rewards: UCN will be rewarded to the community contributors such as third-party developers and community operators.
User incentives: UCN can be earned by improving your community activity such as on-boarding more users and creating valuable content.
xFees: All fees will be denominated in UCN such as transaction fee from Sharing services and DEX.
Ad delivery: UCN can also be paid for advertisements deliver through the UChain advertising system.
The founders are both working as CEOs of U-bicycle which is a world's leading internet company. Business wise, both of them are very experienced and competent. The rest of the team are well experienced when it comes to software development.
The team's advisory board are mostly ICO experienced companies that have established successful coins or ICO's such as Red Pulse, Apex, ConsenSys.
The team has made partnerships with reputable and well established transportation companies like Grab and translink. Moreover, the company has made partnerships with companies that can help them fulfil their plans and established the UCN platform.
The company is relatively young but the leadership behind the parent company is well experienced.
The company has no existing platform yet.
Uchain has many competitors within the market.
The project is attacking existing problems in sharing economy like excessive transaction cost, trust and data abuse.
It started with the parent company, U-Bike which has an established reputation and a proven company – making it an excellent stepping stone for UChain to jump forward on.
The team is well-experienced in the sharing economy industry and has execution experiences. However, the developers have no experience within the blockchain industry.
Overall, the future seems very promising for this project. And the hype is starting to grow.


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GEI's biologists, ecologists, and engineers provided environmental compliance support and developed ecological restoration designs for the affected 2.2 miles of Talmadge Creek along with various impacted areas along over 30 miles of the Kalamazoo River. Following initial planning, GEI staff led implementation of ecological restoration measures throughout the impacted area.
Services provided by GEI staff included wetland delineation, assessment of impacted natural areas, tree surveys, quantitative and qualitative vegetation surveys and monitoring, aquatic habitat assessments, aquatic vegetation field surveys, fish and wildlife habitat structure design and installation, river and stream geomorphological studies, hydraulic modeling for culvert replacements, invasive species control, riverbank soil stability and soil erosion assessments, federal/state/local environmental permitting, natural stream channel and stream bed reconstruction and stabilization, shoreline and wetland restoration design and construction, including the incorporation of bioengineering techniques, and technical report preparation.
After the release, the client elected to repair or replace the majority of Line 6B. GEI has completed multi-year ecological surveys and restoration associated with the pipeline repair and replacement effort across over 250 miles of pipeline corridor in the states of Indiana and Michigan.
After Line 6B repair and replacement work was completed, GEI restoration ecologists installed over 44,000 shrubs and trees within temporarily impacted forested and scrub-shrub wetlands throughout the pipeline corridor.
Federal and state permits for the project require temporarily impacted wetlands to be monitored for a period ranging from two to ten years. GEI botanists and restoration ecologists are conducting floristic inventories and quantitative plant sampling within over 300 wetlands each year to support this requirement.


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No Mercy #1
"No Mercy #1" Comic Review
Written by Alex de Campi
Illustrated by Carla Speed McNeil
Comic released on April 1st, 2015
I have not traveled to another country in my lifetime, but I know enough that if and when I do, I'll tell everyone I'm from Canada. Americans can be seen as ignorant and privileged, and that's mostly true. It is in the case of No Mercy where a group of teens head down to a Central American village to help build schools...and never came back. Something horrible happens to them. The details of this aren't immediately known. We're just given a brief glimpse of a Facebook photo with heartfelt comments sharing prayers and condolences. How does tragedy befall these kids?
That right there is the beauty of No Mercy. Writer Alex de Campi lets you know right off the bat that these kids are doomed with a bombshell like that photo. That's on the second page. Most of the issue is then spent getting these kids into position to experience something horrible. It's like the first twenty minutes of a horror movie, most likely one of the Final Destination films, except you know, really good. (That's not entirely fair to the Final Destination movies as they're not that bad.)
Everything the teenagers come into contact with is potentially fatal. Do they eat some bad churros? Is something going to go wrong with the shady bus they're riding in? What's up with that creepy guy in the business suit? Wow, those roads up the mountain look really narrow. Then it happens. It's not a spoiler if you've read anything about this comic. The bus goes off a cliff. Here's the thing though: That's just the beginning. Remember, this is the first issue!
Unlike most horror movies, there is no one in this cast that I'm rooting for. They're all awful people. I was torn on this at first because I hate seeing stories where the characters are nothing more than cannon fodder, but No Mercy is definitely the exception to the rule. These are the kind of people that you see on a day-to-day basis that annoy the living crap out of you. De Campi has created very real and very hateable characters. I mean, one of them speaks almost entirely in emojis! AARRRGHH!! Knowing that they're all destined to fly off a cliff makes reading and re-reading this comic so much fun.
Carla Speed McNeil's artwork is a great complement to the story. She brings these characters to life, making them instantly realistic. Yes, I have seen a douchebag white kid wearing a reggae shirt and bragging about how cultured he is. Where she really excels are the facial expressions on each character. McNeil captures the oblivious and entitled look often seen on Millennials. It's everywhere in No Mercy. This is a fantastic juxtaposition to the nun who is serving as a guide to the kids on this trip. She's very street smart and knows how to work with these Americans while also not calling them all idiots.
There are two double-page spreads in this issue that really stand out. The first is the aforementioned Facebook photo, which works so well. McNeil managed to cram all of the main characters into the picture, plus putting some nice thumbnails to the side as "ads" highlighting each of the creators. The second spread comes with the bus going off the cliff, and damn is that beautiful. It's presented without a single piece of text, not even sound effects. The bus is entirely in the air and upside down, with smoke trailing off the front as it plummets down a chasm.
No Mercy puts a group of spoiled and annoying pre-college kids on a collision course with doom and never looks back. You know that they're heading towards something horrible, and the cliff is just the first step. Let this serve as a lesson to us all that if you're stranded in an unknown place, look to survive first. If your initial thought is to update Instagram, you deserve to be eaten by coyotes or whatever else lurks in the darkness.
Martian Manhunter #6
Carla Speed McNeil


Friends and colleagues gathered at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue on April 11, 2001 to celebrate the achievements of the 2001Distinguished Academics Awards recipients Dr. Mark Winston (Academic of the Year) and Dr. William (Bill) New (Career Achievement Award).
The awards ceremony was hosted by Susan McNamee, host of CBC Radio One's The Afternoon Show. She noted the important contributions of B.C. university professors to CBC radio and television and to the media generally, and the specific contributions of Dr. Winston and Dr. New to the wider society.
A friend off-handedly called me a hopeless academic the other day, and I naively chose to take her depiction as endearing. Perhaps she was being affectionate, but given our culture's insipid stereotypes about professors it was more likely that she was gently mocking my scholarly demeanor.
Ouch, unfair, but a common enough perception that university administrators habitually feel compelled to extol the pragmatic benefits of universities to society. And academics do indeed contribute discernible value to virtually every aspect of our economy and culture. Researchers from universities have invented computers and made astounding medical advances, professors in political science have helped to shape our government and laws, criminologists have contributed to police work and prison programs, and faculty in fields such as forestry and biology are helping to preserve our natural resources.
Academics grasp at these tangible achievements when required to justify our scholarly endeavours, but there are deeper, less obvious ways that scholars contribute to the off-campus world. Professors dispense a style of thinking, analysis, reflection, and questioning that enriches every aspect of life around us. Academia through its probing customs improves the human experience by contributing the delights and beneficial consequences of rigorous inquiry to our lives.
Eventually professors do return to task, but these stimulating diversions through the garden of wondering expand the possibilities in the world around us. In the corporate world, today's hackneyed mantra is "think outside the box," but scholars have been expanding that box for millennia. Many breakthroughs resulting in new products or production methods have come from curiousity-driven brainstorming, honed at university and descended from the academic experience.
Academics also go well beyond wondering into testing. The "I wonder" meanderings of scholars are the first step, but one guaranteed to quickly ascend into the "Hmmm, how can we test that?" questions.
Professors invariably follow up curiousity with probing arguments about research methods to examine their speculations. These are harsh discussions, not for the faint-of-heart, but necessary to provide confidence in the validity of an idea or an experimental design. This demand for data to satisfy wondering is a uniquely scholarly addition to human thought, and a signature contribution of the academic process to society.
Another little-appreciated feature of the academic persona is the intensely social nature of university life. The professorial image is one of isolated, socially bankrupt, and disreputably clothed nerds. The clothing part is probably right, but as for socially isolated, hardly.
Academia is a profession of intense human interaction, with laboratory groups, meetings of professional organizations, and an inordinate fondness for late-night, free-ranging debate. Scholars contribute this love of verbal interplay and discussion to our civilization, and by example and interaction further enrich all of us.
Professors can be petty, egotistical, pedantic, and boring, but at its best academia soars beyond minutiae and ego towards higher ideals. There is poetry in an elegant experiment, wisdom in the ordered revealing of patterns through data, and inspiration in the simple truths that emerge from rigorously quantifying the world around us.
If academics have a communal fault it is fear of exposing the emotion underlying scholarly pursuits. What is visible to the public often stops at data and intellect. The cliché of a bookish academic misses the intense feelings evoked by studying nature and human society, and the fierce pleasures derived through inquiry and discovery.
The data and experiments, seminars and colloquia that make up an academic day test hypotheses about the broader world. Professors do contribute many real and measurable benefits through that work, but the excitement behind our research sometimes is obscured by a superficially dry tone.
Yet, when scholars probe well, freely, and passionately, the extraordinary tapestry of nature and the mysteries of the human experience are revealed. In that sense, being called an egghead or a hopeless academic is high praise, indeed.
William New, an English professor at the University of British Columbia, may be little known outside academic circles, but he has had an immeasurable effect on Canadian cultural life. It was Professor New who, in his 1972 book Articulating West, transformed Victorian ideas about literature into a uniquely Canadian perspective on how frontier societies find their own forms of cultural expression. In his 1989 follow-up, The History of Canadian Literature, Professor New tackled the totality of Canadian literature, linking Canadian writing to the country's history and to other developments in Canadian cultural life-a task that American academics are only now attempting. Professor New has also published two volumes of poetry, including the 1998 book Vanilla Gorilla, a witty collection of children's verse with distinctly Canadian settings and themes. Professor New received the Career Achievement Award for his pioneering work in the study of Canadian literature and his lifetime of helping Canadians understand themselves through their literature.
First of all I would like to thank the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC–and the sponsors, Sun Microsystems and Pearson Education–for this honour, and for this evening. I would also like to thank my wife, Peggy, and my friends and colleagues (some of whom are here tonight) for their ongoing and enthusiastic support–for of course no 'career achievement' happens in isolation, and so I share this award with them, and with the students and other friends with whom I have worked, both here and abroad, over several decades.
Some weeks ago, in another context entirely, I was asked to name the 'most important' book I had ever published. I found the question a slightly puzzling one to answer. For like most writers, I think of the book that I'm working on now (about which I'll say a bit more in a minute) as probably the 'most important.' This doesn't mean that the others are 'unimportant'–at least I hope it doesn't mean that–but rather that the current book is the one that preoccupies the mind and that grows out of all the work that's preceded it. This business of writing and research is a cumulative one; it's also a process, a kind of dialogue with other scholarship and an outreach into the larger community. It seeks to inform; it also seeks to effect change.
My work has been to study literature in Canada and the English-language literatures of other parts of the Commonwealth–those of Australia and New Zealand, for example, and of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean: a field that is now usually referred to as 'postcolonial writing.' Happily, after 40 years, I am still excited by this inquiry. And when I look back to where my enthusiasm began, in a Vancouver highschool classroom, I think I know why.
In the mid-1950s, having recently discovered the virtues of Roget's Thesaurus, I was provoked, vexed, nettled, irked, and exasperated one day when–yet again–I encountered, as one of the 'study questions' at the back end of a textbook, the stern injunction 'Discuss the role of Our President.' Well, he wasn't 'Our President,' I said. (I wasn't keen on Castle Mountain having been renamed Mount Eisenhower either.) The best teachers (and one of my very best teachers was Laurence Peter, the man who later wrote The Peter Principle) broke conventional rules–and so broke away from the constraints of conventional rules–and they taught us by example. The weaker teachers were those that said 'Oh, just discuss the role of Our Prime Minister instead.' I knew that this response was inadequate, because it was just a simple substitution; it paid no attention to differences in cultural structure, or context, or priority–or to their ramifications in social practice.
Perhaps surprisingly, given the way the Great Identity Quest has so dominated media generalizations about Canadian culture, my generation was convinced we knew who we were: we were a lot more multi-ethnic and mixed together than our grandparents' generation had been, for one thing, and not lapsed British or mock American. Most importantly, we were us. So I made one of those Solemn Vows to which adolescents are prone: One day, I said, if I ever have the chance, I'm going to design a Canadian textbook. And I did. I was fortunate, in this activity, to have terrific friends and colleagues to work with: Herbert Rosengarten, Bill Messenger, Jack Hodgins, Kevin McNeilly, Noel Elizabeth Currie. Our challenge was not just to put things together into an anthology and say "That'll do," but to go looking for Canadian and other literary works, many of which were still largely unfamiliar to teachers and readers, and to make these works accessible to students of all ages. Partly what we were trying to do was to reshape the contexts within which to read Canadian culture, to read it not merely as an afterthought to Europe or the States but as a culture with values of its own. In so doing, we had to find publishers who were willing to buck the Received Truths about a Restricted Tradition and reach out to difference, to us, and to the young.
Luckily, many readers were eager to find out about Canada, and many publishers at the same time were eager to reach them. They still are. So I regard this work in the field of textbook design as still important, as integral to the other work I do as writer, researcher, teacher, and citizen. I think that, in any one of these roles, each of us has to remember to keep in mind not only the wide world of scholarship to which we contribute, but also the specifically Canadian world of the students whom we serve. And importantly, we have to acknowledge that the need to recognize, affirm, and contextualize the value of Canadian culture is a continuing one. I believe, for example, that we're at a very critical moment in academic history in Canadian universities: we hear a lot lately about cutting back the number of teachers and creating academic 'efficiencies' by adopting more and more systems of 'electronic delivery.' If this is all we do, it is the wrong direction to follow, for what it's doing is saying that a substitute will do. Put in an abstract way, a function cannot adequately or productively replace a process. Put more concretely, a software program, by itself–especially one bought from another society–will uncritically reinscribe the priorities, presumptions, and social values of a particular place and time, and the dimensions of its ignorance. Metaphorically saying 'Discuss the role of the prime minister instead' is not enough: it does not feed the spirit of inquiry. For 'delivery' is not the same as 'education'; and a machine–even one that can efficiently deliver routine information and manipulate complex bodies of data–can only be a weak substitute for personal contact, mentoring, and the dynamic of small-group classroom exchange. Our priority should be people. It seems to me that the first universities to break out of their restrictions on hiring–and here I'm going to emphasize hiring in the Arts–will attract the brains of the next generation and be the leading research and teaching university in the country for the next several decades. This is a challenge–to the pocketbook, of course, but also to the imagination.
I was hired into the English Department at UBC in 1965, to set up its Commonwealth Literature courses, and I quickly became involved in the teaching of literature in Canada as part of this enterprise because, almost suddenly, there was enthusiastic demand. A demand, among other things, for basic information: who were Canadian writers, what books had they written? So I got involved in creating reference books–bibliographic guides and literary histories, for example–because students and other readers needed them. This was a time when bookshops kept only a few Canadian books in stock, and generally clumped them all together on a low shelf at the back of the store. Since then, of course, the books have moved from the low shelf to the front window (and out the door!): they are in demand, not simply because they are Canadian but because they happen to be Canadian and are rewarding to read. Locally, nationally, and internationally. The degree to which people all around the world are now familiar with, admire (and academically study) Canadian writers tells of a fascination with these writers and with how they write, about us and about human relationships in general. Some Canadian writers, of course, were known abroad in decades past (Lucy Maud Montgomery, for one, the author of Anne of Green Gables, or Patricia Joudry, who wrote The Aldrich Family for 1940s New York radio), but people who were aware of them didn't necessarily know they were Canadian. Now they do. International readers, as well as readers in any local book club, know about Hodgins and Tremblay, Carson and Atwood, Richards and Mistry, King and Munro, how to read them, and where they call home.
Home: it is of course an interesting concept in its own right. When I first went to Britain as a graduate student, one of the first things that happened was that I was invited to a British Council party for Foreign Students and told to wear my National Costume. That was then. I'm still not sure exactly what my hosts expected me to wear, but the comment clearly epitomizes a time when Canada was imagined only as a savage, snowy wilderness. Now, Canadian books are in bookstores everywhere; literature is a growth industry; Canadian culture clearly has something to say to the world; and it's been an extraordinary experience to have helped to make this change happen. In part by teaching and publishing (activities that I have always found to be closely related to each other)–I am intensely proud of the many graduate students who have worked with me, and who are now themselves teachers and writers, all over the world. In part, too, by speaking about Canadian culture overseas, and (at home) by encouraging the community at large–through the Vancouver Institute, for example, and through the New Canadian Library–to find themselves in Canadian books and to take pleasure in the accomplishments of the writers whom Canada has fostered.
This means, of course, that we have to take account of the multiplicities inside Canadian cultural history. What becomes clear in this context is the relevance to the study of Canada of the rich literatures of the South Pacific; South and Southeast Asia; East, West, & Southern Africa; and the nations of the Caribbean. For these societies–not just those of Europe and the USA–are also contexts for understanding here and home. No longer do vast generalizations about the uniformity of Canadian cultural heritage make sense (if indeed they ever did); the point is that the Canadian literary voice is plural, not singular; that literature is at once a medium of social observation and an agency of social change; and that the cultural negotiations that take place daily in Canadian lives find expression also in Canadian writing.
When the critical quarterly Canadian Literature began at UBC in 1959, one of the arch jokes that circulated at the time was 'Is there any?' A variant asked: 'What will you do in the second issue?' Amusing as these comments might be in retrospect, what they expressed was not a commitment to high art as opposed to low (though that was the inference one was expected to draw) but an attitude of mind that Australians refer to as 'cultural cringe.' The people who at one time said such things were uninformed, or else afraid–afraid especially of being thought 'wrong,' or 'popular'-and-therefore-'unsophisticated.' This attitude was nonsensical, and sad, but by no means rare. I found it instructive, then, to join the editorial staff of Canadian Literature in the late 1960s: a privilege to work with and learn from George Woodcock and Donald Stephens, and to find out what was really happening at the forefront of literary endeavour. Put simply, the journal helped attitudes to change. By the time I took over as editor of Canadian Literature in the 1970s, critical methodologies had also altered, and with them the kinds of inquiry into literary practice and cultural value that had come to be necessary. So publishing continued to be an extension of teaching, a kind of outreach into understanding; and I wrote other kinds of book as well–about what the 'West' means in Canada, about why Canadians write so many short story sequences and what this says about flexibility of social connection, about First Nations writing, about how to read, about what we understand when we talk about the land as 'picturesque' or use such terms as 'wilderness,' 'property,' 'region,' and 'field.' At this point I'd like also to acknowledge Brenda and David McLean for their foresight and generosity in supporting studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences; during the two years that I held the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at UBC, I had the further opportunity to work across academic disciplines, and to reflect on why Canadians are preoccupied with borders–why we hold fast to borderlines and negotiate borderlands–and why we write repeatedly in ironic metaphor.
I've suggested that these inquiries all grew out of my objections to the colonizing tendencies of a highschool textbook. Of course a lot of other experiences have entered into the equation, including a passion for the environment that probably started in my father's garden, and the sheer excitement of discovery that comes from any inquiry into unknown territory–the stir of enthusiasm when reality meets imagination: in language as in life. I think, for example, that these impulses–to celebrate both language and the land–came together in Land Sliding, my book about 'space, presence, and power' in Canadian writing. I know the book relates somehow to my undergraduate training in geomorphology; it probably also has something to do with the summer job I had between the ages of 19 and 23, when I worked for a mining exploration company, tramped over much of British Columbia, and learned something practical about rock formations, mineral deposits, and staking claims. That kind of exploration had a metaphoric counterpart later when I came to work in library archives and to began to tramp happily through literary history. I wanted to place questions of utility and resource demand in cultural context, read them alongside those of political and aesthetic territoriality. For I've come to recognize that a society is a process in which technology and the arts, science and human relations, economics and political ambitions and assorted systems of desire and belief all touch: that's why the arts are not merely relevant in contemporary society but integral to its continuity, and why it's important and exciting to recognize the effective power of words.
Easily said. But one of the enjoyments of writing is that there's always another project, and the one that I'm currently working to finish–it's scheduled to be published later this year–is a large, one-volume book, aimed at both academics and the general reader, called Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. I guess it's the sort of book that one should always attempt close to retirement, for it testifies not only to the past but also to the continuity of discovery. As the etymology of the word 'encyclopedia' explains, it is a 'course in general education.' Which is, I suppose, another way of defining the word 'career.' The book is now over 2000 pages in typescript, has in it as many separate entries, some long, some very short, and (as I seem to have started retelling 'The Three Bears' here) some in between. It has involved 300 contributors altogether (not all of them academics, but those who are come from different disciplines: literature, anthropology, women's studies, linguistics, librarianship, law), and it aims to be up-to-date, accurate (according to the latest research), and more comprehensive than anything else ever published in the field. It addresses subjects that are obviously literary, such as genres and literary terms, language and the publishing industry, humour and book design, literature in the unofficial languages of Canada and the oral literatures of the First Nations; it also deals with libel and copyright law, censorship and journalism, popular culture, petroglyphs, and the socioliterary issues raised by such subjects as gender, race, region, religion, nationalism, science, the media, and the other arts. There are also numerous biocritical entries. So in the process of compiling the book, I have found out fascinating details about the lives of literally hundreds of absorbing writers–one who was born on a trapline, one who went to school with Greta Garbo, one who wrote that old staple of Saturday matinees The Perils of Pauline, one who wrote The Flying Nun, one who claimed that his father was a 'racketeer, crime lord, and concert pianist,' and one who claimed kinship with Queen Victoria. I also found out about several hoaxes and at least two cases of fraud. Who said Canadian culture was bland?
One of Earle Birney's much-anthologized poems represents Canada as a 'case history'–talks of it as a 'highschool land, dead set in adolescence'; Birney later rewrote this observation, musing that the nation had shifted from adolescence to senescence without any maturity in between. It's a nicely balanced sardonic satire. But it's too easy, I think, to accept the comment either as permanently true or else as a pointed but inconsequential irony, one that can safely be put into an anthology and set aside. I think, in fact–and in retrospect–that it's been one of the concerns of my career so far to try to make sure that Birney's social diagnosis can no longer be accepted as valid. For I want not only to hang on as long as I can to that spirit of enthusiasm I had in high school, but also to foster it in the next generation, and to emphasize how important it is, in society at large, to read widely, read well, read critically, and read between the lines. I hope, too, that my work has helped to encourage others to keep reading Canadian literature, to keep writing in order to keep on finding out how words work, and to celebrate the fact that reading and writing are serious activities in which people can still have fun.
At the Distinguished Academics Awards ceremony on April 11, 2001, host Susan McNamee read the following poem from William New's 1998 book of verse for children, Vanilla Gorilla.
I'M SO HAPPY I COULD HOP TO HALIFAX.
This is the seventh year the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia (CUFA/BC) has given awards to recognize excellence in the contributions of academic work to the wider community. The Academic of the Year Award was established in 1995 as a means to highlight the accomplishments of the academic staff of B.C. public universities. In 1999, the Career Achievement Award was added and the awards became collectively known as the Distinguished Academics Awards. Dr. Winston and Dr. New each received a cheque for $2,000 and a specially commissioned trophy.


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Wolf It Down: Wolf Among Us Ep 2 Hits First Week Of Feb
15th January 2014 / 6:00PM
The internet was ready to huff-and-puff and blow Telltale's house down to find information on the next episode of their fable-inspired, Fables-derived adventure The Wolf Among Us. When a Reddit user created a popular thread to complain about the lack of information though, co-founder Kevin Bruner piped up with a rough release date. The second episode will hit during the first week of February.
Bruner was vague on the details of the what caused the delay, but is confident the same thing shouldn't happen again during the rest of the ongoing series. He did mirror the noises of the Wolfamongous players though, by saying that they are "very concerned about the long delay for this episode." So that's nice.
Wolf Among Us – or Wolfamongous, as it must be pronounced every time you type or say the words aloud – is a Telltale point-and-click adventure game in the mould of The Walking Dead. That means it contains precious few puzzles and no real inventory noodling, but plenty of character drama and a touch of quick-time events. The first episode was perhaps most remarkable for its art style, which painted its fantasy-infused noir New York in warm purples. The story involves the player controlling a modern take on the Big Bad Wolf as he investigates the murders of some of his fellow folklore characters, running into Snow White, the Magic Mirror and Grendel along the way. It's a bit like Mickey Spillane wrote a Disney film.
Adam liked it so much he wrote Wot He Thunk about it. Alec and I liked it so much we combined with Adam to form the Megazord of game criticism, and wrote an RPS Verdict of the first episode.
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